^ I would love to see Desmond again, lol

he did have like 5 more rivals i believe

Nazi ghouls :teehee:

The product of a last ditch SS "Super Soldaten" experiment.......the project basically manufactured ghouls that were intended to be immune to radiological weapons that were being worked on in a separate project. The test subjects...a elite unit of SS volunteers...were sealed up in containers that placed them in suspended animation while turning them into ghouls. The cylinders also had a secondary feature that could be used to brainwash a less willing "volunteer". Fortunately for the Allies, in the last days of the war US troops stumbled upon the facility they were kept in and captured it before they could be deployed. Not realizing the cylinders contained live ghouls, the facility's contents were brought to the US and placed in deep storage where they were forgotten until a few years before the war....when the Enclave found references to it in DOD files and located the containers and project data and shipped them to a secret black operations lab under a Poseidon Oil facility for study for the Enclave's own projects. During the war, the facility takes a nuke, destroying the surface part of the facility, but leaving the underground labs intact but sealed shut. Unable to escape, the lab staff decides to restart the project and perform the process on themselves. In the course of this they opened some of the containers, letting the Nazi ghouls out, who promptly overpowered the scientists and thier security and took over. Seeing the scientists as useful...and realizing they knew nothing of the outside world having been asleep for over 100 years...they granted thier wish and stuck them in the ghoulification cylinders for a few years. Now ghouls, the scientists had little choice but to make common cause with them and most went back into suspended animation, leaving a few to stand watch and to wake the rest once someone unsealed thier tomb. But 100 years before game time.....the Nazi ghouls on watch were killed when the tunnel they were in collapsed. So the rest slept on.....until the Courier arrives with a small team from either the BoS or Followers (whoever got ED's files) to scav the place. needless to say, they unseal the facility and wake them up. Most of the team is killed, but the Courier and maybe one other member are spared for interrogation......but are rescued at the last minute by Desmond Lockhart, who had learned about the facility in Calvert's files and had come to destroy it, getting there a critical few hours after the Courier. Needless to say, he's furious at the Courier for screwing things up and freeing them and makes it plain that the courier is going to help him undo the damage and stop them. As the Nazi Ghouls begin raiding the area for "recruits" to carry out thier leader's evil scheme of a undead Fourth Reich, Desmond and the Courier have to find a way to stop them.

Thats one way to do it but Nazi zombies seems a little bit ridiculous,

Thats one way to do it but Nazi zombies seems a little bit ridiculous, not saying that ridiculous is always bad, but anyways instead of releasing nazi zombies we release Desmonds next rival and like above a few hours before desmond would arive and once agian would be furious with the courier and then employes his help to track down his target, mabey with a few ridiculous curveballs along the way.

^ I would love to see Desmond again, lol

he did have like 5 more rivals i believe

These would be ghouls with thier minds intact....not ferals. A unholy alliance of Nazis and Enclave scientists, who were forced by circumstances to revise thier similar ideologies into a new common ideology that Ghouls were the Master Race? and destined to rule the world.....smooth-skins would either be converted or killed. But yes, it is a little bit ridiculous....but no worse than aliens and mutated hillbillies. It would provide a pretext to add German WW2 weapons to the game, not to mention those snappy Hugo Boss uniforms. It would also make for some funny dialogue from the SS General and his sidekick pre-war Enclave scientist when they try to justify thier behavior and recruit the Courier into joining them. The man (now ghoul) in charge of the Poseidon facility could be one of Desmond's enemies, but I was going on the assumption he learned about it from anolyzing Calvert's files and decided this was a pre-war abomination that required special attention before some "stupid f****** wastelander", as Desmond would say, accidentally let them loose on a unsuspecting world.

Lots of things wrong with that...

1: the Nazi's where whipped out time line deliverance was after WW2 remember? Enclave are pure human they would never think about helping mutants of anykind. Also they would never think about helping Fascists or Communists. The Enclave is a democracy remember.

2: Ghouls don't exist pre-war, and nobody knows exactly what conditions are needed to turn into a ghoul instead of just getting killed by rad poisoning. All the Ghouls in the West Coast came from one Vault, it had a faulty door so it leaked rads. They founded Necropolis then after the end of FO1 dispersed. No new ghouls can be created, since they are sterile and there isn't any more radiation events like the War to make more if the condition's are right.

3: Pre war enclave was the US government, post war Enclave as of FO2 would have just killed the lot of them as they would have served no use. AS of post FO2 FO3 they don't have the power anymore to do it.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Skilled trait and Sulik's http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Kurisu please.

Harland as a companion.

Buff the laser pistol by 4 damage.
Buff the Recharger Rifle by 7 damage (And don't have Chet sell it.

Make some fixed spawn locations out in the wasteland be player leveled spawns after we've killed them once.

Add a chem store on the same street as Strip Gate, Kings, Van Graffs and Atomic Wrangler.
The chem store sells dozens of every single chem in the game, even things like Hydra, Turbo, Slasher, Rocket, Ultrajet, etc.
You cannot barter with this NPC.
You have to buy stuff through dialogue, so the only way to buy these chems is with caps.
No "trading in 4 bumper swords" or anything like that.

Khans are badass right?
They're feared right?
At least that's what NPC's tell us.
So why are they so kickass?
Poison!
Have a Khan merchant in Red Rock Canyon sell Tremble, Bleak Venom and Silver Sting.
But their price should be really high, like 300 caps for Tremble, 200 for Silver Sting and 100 for Bleak Venom.
You cannot barter with this NPC.
You have to buy stuff through dialogue, so the only way to buy these poisons is with caps.
No "trading in 4 bumper swords" or anything like that.

Legion should have a merchant in Cottonwood Cove, one that sells tribal items only. (He also sells throwing weapons in large quantities.)

First why should it matter if a player trades stuff to your suggested merchants?
Second surely the players could just fast travel away and sell at another vendor and come back, which would make it seem just like a tedious game mechanic.

These would be ghouls with thier minds intact....not ferals. A unholy alliance of Nazis and Enclave scientists, who were forced by circumstances to revise thier similar ideologies into a new common ideology that Ghouls were the Master Race? and destined to rule the world.....smooth-skins would either be converted or killed. But yes, it is a little bit ridiculous....but no worse than aliens and mutated hillbillies. It would provide a pretext to add German WW2 weapons to the game, not to mention those snappy Hugo Boss uniforms. It would also make for some funny dialogue from the SS General and his sidekick pre-war Enclave scientist when they try to justify thier behavior and recruit the Courier into joining them. The man (now ghoul) in charge of the Poseidon facility could be one of Desmond's enemies, but I was going on the assumption he learned about it from anolyzing Calvert's files and decided this was a pre-war abomination that required special attention before some "stupid f****** wastelander", as Desmond would say, accidentally let them loose on a unsuspecting world.

First why should it matter if a player trades stuff to your suggested merchants?
Second surely the players could just fast travel away and sell at another vendor and come back, which would make it seem just like a tedious game mechanic.

Yes, the Third Reich was destroyed. Yes, the "divergance" started around 1950. But there is a rich history of movies and books about old Nazi experiments coming back to haunt people....why not in Fallout?

Cause caps are crap.
Legion money is crap.
NCR money is crap.
All money is crap!
This would be a way to buy stuff with caps instead of trading in items.
If you wish to travel to another merchant to trade items for caps and come back then feel free to do so.
I just think that more NPC's in the game should refuse to trade and only accept caps up front.

Now I know, I know, "Why don't you just use caps instead of trading items then?".
I dunno, bad self control I guess.
But my point still stands, more merchants in the game should accept caps/denarius/NCRapmoney only.

Basically items=caps (although they are of set values) so why make it so you have to do a bit of a run around?

That's what annoys me.
West-coast is becoming more and more civilized, yet they agree to barter stuff like a pair of cave-men?
I mean, if I were to go to EB-Games with a diamond ring, I am 99% certain that they would not allow me to trade it in for games equal in value.

I would actually like there to be a separate trading screen for bartering items.
So that if I come with a plasma grenade, I can't sell it for caps, at anyone, I can only trade it for something of equal value.
(Yay for complexity (I would want it even more complex than this but I'm tired and don't have the time to write an essay of what I "really" want, and even then that wouldn't be able to implement in a simple DLC))